Vocabulary + Absolute Value
The distance of a number from zero.
What is absolute value?
-5 + 9
4
-4 - 6
-10
-2 - 3
-5
All whole numbers and their opposites, including zero.
-12 + 5
-7
4 - 11
-7
-10 + 30
20
Numbers that are the same distance away from zero but in different directions.
What are opposite numbers?
-36 + (-27)
-63
15 - (-7)
22
21 - (+5)
16
|6| - |6|
What is zero?
Explain how you add numbers with different signs.
Subtract the numbers and take the sign of the bigger number.
-27 - (-3)
-24
Subtracting a negative is the same thing as...?
Adding a positive
6 + -6
What is zero?
-16+ 18+ -17
-15
-10 - 11 - (-3)
-18
-10 + (-2) - 15
-27